Assumptions

• How do humans collect information from the outside world?

  Through their senses, like sight
• What did Griffiths (1994) ask participants to do while playing on a fruit machine?

  To think aloud and describe their thoughts
• What did Griffiths find about regular gamblers compared to non-regular gamblers?

  Regular gamblers made more irrational verbalisations
• How do our senses function in the computer analogy?

  As input for processing information
• What is the first store of memory according to Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)?

  Sensory memory
• What is the role of rehearsal in memory according to Atkinson and Shiffrin?

  It helps move information to long term memory
• What do schemas represent?

  Knowledge packets of information
• What are scripts in the context of schemas?

  Expectations of how situations unfold
• What did Dion et al. (1972) find about physically attractive individuals?

  They were judged as more competent and successful